W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Then straight away he casts about him for an opportunity to carry on.
A pretext is soon found, and he goes at it hammer and tongs, and forty years after you shall find him at the same trick, with as simple a faith, as exalted as expectation, as vigorous an impotence as the day he began.
His carings on are as diverse in kind as comprehensive in scope.
As those of the most versatile negro minstrel
He cuts as many keepers in a lifetime as there are stars in heaven or grains of sand in a barrel of sugar.
Everything is fish that comes to his net.
If a discovery in science is announced, he will execute you in antique upon it before it gets fairly cold.
Is a new theory advanced.
Ten to one, while you are trying to get it through, your head he will stand on his own and make mouths at it.
A great invention provokes him into a whirlwind of flip flaps, absolutely bewildering to the secular eye.
While at any exceptional phenomenon, of nature, such as an earthquake, he will project himself frog like into an infinity of lofty gymnastic absurdities.
In short
The slightest agitation of the intellectual atmosphere sets your average parson into a tempest of pumping like the jointed legionist youth attached to the eccentric of a boy's whirl gig.
His philosophy of life may be boiled down into a single sentence Carry on and you will be happy.
End of chapter thirty nine
Chapter forty of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Liebervox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
To tak.
Did we eat one another?
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